Nursing Shortages due to Covid

Nursing Shortages due to Covid

To provide a safe working environment, appropriate staffing must be maintained (CDC, 2021). According to the CDC (2021), as the Covid pandemic progresses, there will be staffing shortages due to healthcare personal (HCP), illness, or the need to care for family members at home. There are contingency capacity strategies to mitigate staffing shortages are being implemented (CDC, 2021). These strategies include cancelling all non-essential procedures and visits, attempting to address social factors that might prevent HCP from working, identifying additional HCP to work in the facility, and requesting that HCP postpone elective time off from work (CDC, 2021).

ANOVA Study

This study compares three mathematical methods: nonlinear regression, SIR, and SEIR epidemic models, to track the covid-19 disease in nine countries affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, to help epidemiologists to know the disease trajectory, considering initial data in the pandemic, mainly 100 days from the beginning (Juarez-Lucero et al., 2021). There was three methods one-way ANOVA applied to evaluate the results. The sample was from infected cases from the United States, Spain, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina (Juarez-Lucero et al., 2021). Mathematical models (nonlinear regression, SIR, and SEIR) were used to simulate the Covid-19 disease (Juarez-Lucero et al., 2021). According to Juarez-Lucero (2021), the results were that the Unites States had 1,098,508 cases, Spain had 226,721 cases, Italy had 202,953 cases, France had 183,897 cases, United kingdom  had 182,190, Germany had 159,407 cases, Canada had 58, 696 cases, Mexico had 50,366, and Argentina had 4,860 cases.

Inferential statistics strengthen the study because it showed the amount of cases of infected populations from each country. This study reveled that The United States must take stronger precautions against Covid. This study was limited because it didn’t specify if there were any precautions were taken from each country. Studies are still showing that the U.S. cases of COVID-19 increased by 1,201,015 (a 41% increase) over a seven-day period. There is a daily case average of 168,409 cases, and Dec. 22 saw 242,794 new cases. The U.S. has exceeded 100,000 almost every day in December. North America had only 1,306,518 new cases. There were 8,876 new deaths over the past seven days for a 1% decrease. The U.S. has the highest number of new and total cases, the highest number of total deaths and new deaths (CDP, 2021)

References

CDC. (2021). Staff Shortages. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/mitigating-staff-shortages.html

CDP. (2021). Covid-19 Coronavirus. Retrieved from https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disaster/2019-ncov-coronavirus/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7COBhC2ARIsANsPATEqLBctF8fQ__zdSSv6YdB4GxTMABOb_8z7BBPFx3sW6N2uh7K8qOsaAmhgEALw_wcB

Juarez,-Lucero, J., Sanchez, S., Diaz-Hernandez, R., Guevara-Villa, M.R., Altamirano-Robles, L. (2021). ANOVA to Compare Three Methods to Track COVID-19 in Nine Countries. Retrieved from http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0188-95322021000100103